@Vincent It'll get better, little one got shots last week but also had something else on top (roseola, which is unexained fever/crabbiness for a few days which ends with a skin eruption and that's when you know it's roseola)
I do want to have a good correlation to the card's significance and the image
yup, that. every schmuck can draw a skull or a skeleton for 'XII: Death', but I want something modern that clearly signifies 'permanent transformation'
np. Oh, I'm really for subverting role models and all. If I can make the 'strength' one (signifies, well, strength, courage and patience) something explicitly female, I'd be delighted
Pasting this here to help me think :P "He is hanging upside-down, viewing the world from a completely different perspective, and his facial expression is calm and serene, suggesting that he is in this hanging position by his own choice."
@Vincent I need a break from my thesis, this is fun :P
"Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach features a pair of characters who "push-into" and "pop-out of" the two-dimensional world of Escher prints. "
Hierophant "In many modern packs, the Hierophant is represented with his right hand raised in what is known esoterically as the blessing or benediction, with two fingers pointing skyward and two pointing down, thus forming a bridge between Heaven and Earth" SpaceX?
In the John Difool series by Moebius/Jodorowsky technology is is monopolized by a cult lead by the Techno Pope. Basically Mark Zuckerberg/Elon Musk with cooler outfit.
@curious SpaceX is quite literal. "Heaven" could also just be the "salvation" offered by tech corps in the form of various "indispensable" apps and services.
Emperor ("Underneath it, he wears a suit of armour, suggesting that he is protected from any threat (and any emotional response or vulnerability"..."he is an authority figure who demands to be heard"..."Behind his throne looms a tall, impenetrable mountain range, signifying that he is backed by a solid foundation but resistant to making any changes unless he deems it necessary")
<insert specific politician> with a big wall depicted in the back :P
@Vincent I love symbols too. And history. We tend to think that we are living in the "modern time" and have it all figured out. It's humbling to dive into history and realize how much we are a product of earlier times.
and how much people still let their lives be guided by wisdom that has long since become obsolete or at least up for serious reconsideration because of, well, the times, they are a-changin'
it's an interesting result of the very human desire to resist change
@Vincent I'm not religious in the sense that I don't follow a priest or a book. But if you think new technology answers any of "the great questions" you are naive. We are still just lumps of meat living in a mud pool. We are not about to ascent into the air and became ethereal beings.
@curious But still if you were using Zuckerbergs (doing the sign of the cross) brainhelmet we talked about the other day it would still just be vibrations of meat.
I guess going from "flapping your meat" (i.e. talking) to communicate to "vibrating your meat" to communicate (i.e. brain to brain interfaces), makes that stretch seem much more plausible and obvious :)
With your propension towards colors and sci-fi, you might enjoy Neil Harbisson's work
@curious We do it a lot the other way around, describing sound with words I mean.
I saw a documentary about a blind woman who had a metal plate placed on the back of her brain. The idea was to stimulate the brain with electrical impulses from a camera and hope that her brain found out what to make of it. She ended up being able to see a 2x1 px bitmap image, light to the left or to the right. And then the doctor died and his notes were a total mess so nobody wanted to take over the project.
